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Just adding to this that I’ve got a few shorter ghoap ones that are just a little (kind of a lot?) heartbreaking that are sitting in there that I might just release here instead of putting them on ao3 cause that feels like less commitment

Also for you podcast bitches I’ve been cooking up a kepcobi one for over a year now that very well may be the most soul shattering thing I’ve ever written and I hope that one day I’m happy enough with the finished product to show it to people

Sometimes I stare at all the drafted fics in my drive and think wow I should really do something with this but then I remember that I have unfinished fics that are released to the public and then I keep working on these drafts and hurting my own feelings anyway

Warren Kepler and Daniel Jacobi

I for sure stole this screenshot from someone else at some point but I genuinely can’t remember who because I just rediscovered it in my photos

I know I’m going to release my COD stuff first but when I say you podcast bitches are not ready for my Wolf359 shit I mean that

I’m actually ruining my own life at this point because I’m just making myself sad over and over again but this project is literally all that’s on my mind. I sit in class and I think about it. I try to sleep and then I get up to write more. I attempt to get writing/editing done on my COD projects and I switch tabs. I can’t get anything done because suddenly I have an idea and it must be included.

Kepcobi but really just Jacobi

As I float around working on my various Jacobi fics I just want to point out that when these start being released to the world the public will finally find out how genuinely psychotic I am. I don’t even mean that in the way that I said “various” meaning multiple of them though definitely says something about me psychologically, I mean that in the way of if you read all of them you’ll realize that my brain is like a web created by a caffeinated spider the way everything is somehow connected

This idea also applies to my cod works but sadly the only ones I have out in their full form are actually connected because one is a sequel and my other little snippet thing I’ve been working on does have connections to that as well but there’s not enough of them for you to see them yet. You’re definitely going to see it with Jacobi though

Welcome to my favorite time of the day which I like to call my sleep schedule vs. that random fanfic idea I had

My thoughts on the SI-5

For as much as a lot of fandom romanticizes the SI-5 as a friend group, Kepler really did Jacobi and Maxwell so dirty. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad he got it in the end, and the character himself is hilarious. But I need to talk about this. This man is insane and needs to be held accountable.

First of all, he meets them at the very lowest points of their life. Maxwell is isolated from her family and support systems, and it’s implied her career is heading for the toilet due to her fight with the ethics board. Jacobi’s career is totally over after he was blacklisted from his work, and it’s implied he doesn’t have strong support systems either. Kepler knows that and uses it to manipulate both of them into working for him. They both, especially Jacobi, have such a strong loyalty to him because they saw him as their only way out of their situations, and Kepler does not match that loyalty at all.

How do I know this? Because he was totally cool with Maxwell dying. Didn’t shed a tear. And when Jacobi called him out for that and threatened HIS life? Kepler was like “well okay. Guess we have to shoot Jacobi then.” I was reviewing my episode reactions, and I totally forgot he told Minkowski that. Like he didn’t hesitate or even try apologizing to Jacobi or admitting he was wrong first, he jumped right to “kill Jacobi instead.” He also had the audacity to say “how could he (Jacobi) do this? After all we’ve been through? 🥺” and then what they’ve “been through” is Kepler buying Jacobi fireworks (1) time, admitting to stalking Jacobi and Maxwell for years before he hired them (creepy), harassing and threatening them if they fail to comply with his orders, telling Jacobi and Maxwell they’re worth about as much as a glass of whisky and he wouldn’t miss them (which is verified by his reaction to Maxwell’s death and brief willingness to kill Jacobi to save his own skin when Jacobi tries to get revenge), lying to Jacobi and Maxwell and keeping secrets from both of them, and being an arrogant jerk of a boss who treats them more like his patronized pets than his friends. It’s actually funny how Kepler is shocked that wouldn’t be enough to keep Jacobi’s loyalty after gambling with the life of his best friend. He’s so blinded by his own ego it’s hilarious. Like buddy, it’s a miracle of desperate circumstance that either of them were loyal to you in the first place, you pompous whisky-worshipping buffoon.

You even see it in the little details. Kepler talking to Cutter about Jacobi and Maxwell behind their backs on that one call, the way Jacobi calls Maxwell “Alana” but Jacobi and Kepler use their formal names for each other until the very end when Kepler calls Jacobi “Daniel” and acts legitimately terrified to discover what Cutter and Pryce’s true plans are. Which again, love the way the redemption arc was done and those little details show you proof that Kepler rethought his views and isn’t doing this on a whim and that Jacobi and Maxwell’s friendship, as compared to their relationships with Kepler, was a stronger and more real and genuine friendship. I mean, headcanon what you want, write the SI-5 how you want. But a lot of people seem to either love or hate the whole SI-5 group (I admit this was me for a long while, though I do love post-redemption duck and whisky boys) so it’s easy to gloss over these internal dynamics within the SI-5, but if Kepler survived, I would personally need him to acknowledge just how much of a jerk he really was because yikes.

Kepcobi this kepcobi that. None of you understand them like i do the nature of jacobis damage towards kepler is PARENTAL. He's the character whose family life we get the most detail on and that detail is that he has a disapproving military father he feels he can never be good enough for. Kepler is the surrogate paternal figure who appreciates his skillset and so jacobi offers unquestioning pseudofilial loyalty in return. Any romantic or sexual undertones are one sided and, i am sorry to say, tangled up in the parental angle. The car stakeout fireworks mini episode does undeniably have "you forgot our anniversary" vibes but it ALSO has "taking my surrogate son fishing/baseball throwing like his real father never did" energy!!! That being said i like to believe he was totally checking kepler out that first time in the bar